mittimus

American  

[mit-uh-muhs] / ˈmɪt ə məs /

noun

Law.

• mittimuses
  plural

1. a warrant of commitment to prison.

2. a writ for removing a suit or a record from one court to another.

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mittimus British  

/ ˈmɪtɪməs /

noun

1. law a warrant of commitment to prison or a command to a jailer directing him to hold someone in prison

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• mittimuses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of mittimus

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin: we send, first word of such a writ; see remit

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

mittimus mittimuses

Holden's friends also at last took a sorrowful leave, and the mittimus being made out, it was handed to Basset, to remove the prisoner to the place of destination.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams

His captor then demanded the mittimus, which he tore into small pieces, and scattered around.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams

All you need is a kind word and a mittimus from the court.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

There was abundant concurring testimony that made the proof of guilt incontrovertible, and Starlight Tom's mittimus was made out accordingly.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

He stepped up to the wicket as Palmer read the mittimus to the deputy jailer, and, when the latter bade him a cordial good evening, he merely nodded his head.

From The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

And divers mittimuses were made, but none of them would hold; for still, when they came to be read, we found such flaws in them as made him throw them aside, and write more.

From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood